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This technical and well-illustrated guide for archaeologists and
conservators aims to 'provide a methodology for the identification
of the woody taxa used to manufacture artefacts recovered from
archaeological excavations', to provide the anatomical descriptions
of the taxa and to present a list of characters of the taxa. The
guide is heavily illustrated with photographs, maps, and tables to
allow easy identification.
Contents: Preface, Introduction, Chris Gosden. Part I: Food and Culture, Andrew Sherratt, Cash Crops before cash: hunting, farming, manufacture and trade in earlier Eurasia, Christine Hastorf, Cultural Implications of Crop introductions in Andean prehistory, Alejandro Haber, Uywana, the house and its indoor landscape: oblique approaches to, and beyond, domestication, Soren Blau, Of water and oil: exploitation of natural resources and social change in eastern Arabia, Gustavo Politis, Plant exploitation among the Nukak hunter-gathers of Amazonia: between ecology and ideology. Part II: Introductions, Helen Leach, Food processing technology: its role in inhibiting or promoting change in staple foods, K. Mehra, Subsistence changes in India and Pakistan: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic from the point of view of plant use today, Sarah Nelson, Megalithic monuments and the introduction of rice into Korea, Catherine Andrea, Dispersal of domesticated plants into northeastern Japan, Elizabeth Reitz, Native Americans and animal husbandry in the North American colony of Florida. Part III: Food and the Landscape, Tim Bayliss-Smith & Jack Golsen, The meaning of ditches: deconstructing the social landscapes of New Guinea, Kuk, phase 4, Chris Godsen & Lesley Head, Different histories: Papua New Guinea and Australia compared, Christophe Sand, From the swamp to the terrace: intensification of horticultural practices in New Caledonia, from first settlement to European contact, Robert Kuhlken, Warfare and intensive agriculture in Fiji, Carol Palmer, Who's land is it anyway? An historical examination of land tenure and agriculture in northern Jordon, Ken Thomas, Getting a life: stability and change in social and subsistence systems on the North-West Frontier (Pakistan) in later prehistory, Yuri Vostretsov, Interaction of maritime and agricultural adaptation in Japan sea basin, Kevin MacDonald, Invisible Pastoralists: sedentists and livestock remains in the later prehistory of arid West Africa, Willem van Zeist, Evidence for agricultural change in the Balikh basin, Northern Syria. Part IV: Plants and People, Edmond de Langhe & P. de Maret, Tracking the banana: significance to early agriculture, Randi Haaland, Theory and evidence in archaeological interpretation of the transition from gathering to domestication: the puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile Valley, Deborah Pearsall, The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America: an example from the Jama River Valley, Coastal Equador, Michael Therin, Richard Fullagar & Richard Torrence, Starch in sediments: a new approach to the study of subsistence and land use in Papua New Guinea, A. Butler, Traditional seed cropping systems in the temperate Old World: models for antiquity, George Wilcox, Agrarian change and the beginnings of agriculture in the Near East: evidence from wild projenitors, experimental cultivation and archaeobotanical data.
This technical and well-illustrated guide for archaeologists and
conservators aims to `provide a methodology for the identification
of the woody taxa used to manufacture artefacts recovered from
archaeological excavations', to provide the anatomical descriptions
of the taxa and to present a list of characters of the taxa. The
guide is heavily illustrated with photographs, maps, and tables to
allow easy identification.
Covers the examination, identification and interpretations of plant
remains in tropical archaeology, whilst also the origins, spread,
distribution and past use of tropical plants for food and other
purposes.
The parenchymous remains of roots and tubers are increasingly
becoming recognized as an important category of plant remain
alongside seeds, fruits and wood charcoal. Identification is
however frequently viewed as problematical and such important
indicators of past diet are often left unidentified. This book
describes the full range of anatomical and morphological characters
used in the identification of the parenchymous remains of roots and
tubers. Each of the characters is illustrated by photographs of
modern and archaeological plant tissues and by line drawings.
Further sections of the book also deal with the examination of
archaeological tissues and the preparation of modern plant tissue
reference collections.
The parenchymous remains of roots and tubers are increasingly
becoming recognized as an important category of plant remain
alongside seeds, fruits and wood charcoal. Identification is
however frequently viewed as problematical and such important
indicators of past diet are often left unidentified. This book
describes the full range of anatomical and morphological characters
used in the identification of the parenchymous remains of roots and
tubers. Each of the characters is illustrated by photographs of
modern and archaeological plant tissues and by line drawings.
Further sections of the book also deal with the examination of
archaeological tissues and the preparation of modern plant tissue
reference collections.
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical
investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider
range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and
more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering
aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the
northern hemisphere from Japan, across America, Europe and into the
Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent
past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding
of human interaction with plants throughout our history.
Tropical Archaeobotany looks at the examination, identification and
interpretation of plant remains in tropical archaeology. It
investigates the origins, spread, distribution and past use of
tropical plants for food and other purposes. This volume details,
with the use of case studies from a wide range of areas, the latest
macroscopic, microscopic and chemical techniques for the analysis
of plant remains, from seeds, roots and tubers to epidermal
fragments, pollen and phytoliths. The manual should be useful to
the professional and student archaeobotanist.
The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by
focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together
contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as
those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change,
and includes a wide range of case studies.
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical
investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider
range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and
more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering
aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the
northern hemisphere from Japan, across America, Europe and into the
Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent
past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding
of human interaction with plants throughout our history.
This book provides a visual index of microphotographs for
identifying charred remains of roots and tubers from archaeological
sites in Europe and the Near East. Although often present in
archaeological deposits, the vegetative organs of roots, tubers,
rhizomes, corms have been poorly and erratically identified. This
manual, for laboratory use, presents a new methodology for the
identification of the charred remains of roots and tubers from
archaeological sites. The fresh and charred morphology and anatomy
of over seventy taxa are described and fully illustrated with 590
scanning electron micrographs.
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